Read the Web
Research Project at Carnegie Mellon University

NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

Browse the Knowledge Base!

Can computers learn to read? We think so. "Read the Web" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day:

• First, it attempts to "read," or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)).
• Second, it attempts to improve its reading competence, so that tomorrow it can extract more facts from the web, more accurately.

So far, NELL has accumulated over 50 million candidate beliefs by reading the web, and it is considering these at different levels of confidence. NELL has high confidence in 2,810,379 of these beliefs — these are displayed on this website. It is not perfect, but NELL is learning. You can track NELL's progress below or @cmunell on Twitter, browse and download its knowledge base, read more about our technical approach, or join the discussion group.

Recently-Learned Facts

instance	iteration	date learned	confidence
rtog_study is a research project	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
john_wallis is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
general_federation_of_trade_unions_of_korea is a trade union	1111	06-jul-2018	91.0
streator_community_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
south_boston_gazette_virginian is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
easyjet is a company that has an office in the city pisa	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
jammu_kashmir is a sate or province located in the country india	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
elverson_road is a park in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
adidas has acquired reebok	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
bobby_gillespie is a musician who is part of primal_scream	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0